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Task Force 6 assesses:

• Millennium Development Target 9, "Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources."

Task Force Coordinators

Ms. Yolanda Kakabadse Navarro is President of IUCN, the World Conservation Union. She is a member of the Board of the World Resources Institute, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and the Ford Foundation. In addition Ms. Kakabadse serves as advisor to the President of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and is a member of the Advisory Board of INBio. Her nexus with the environmental conservation movement officially began in 1979, when she was appointed Executive Director of Fundación Natura in Quito, where she worked until 1990. Ms. Kakabadse helped Fundación Natura become one of Latin America's most important environmental NGOs in Ecuador. Since 1990 and until 1992, Ms Kakabadse coordinated the participation of civil society organizations in the United Nations Conference for Environment and Development (Earth Summit) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1993 she founded Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano, NGO where she acts as Executive President. In August 1998 she was appointed Minister of Environment for the Republic of Ecuador, position she held until January 2000. She served on the Board of Directors of the World Wide Fund International from 1995 to 1997. Ms. Kakabadse has received numerous awards including the Insignia of the National Order for Merit as a Commissioned Officer for the Republic of Ecuador, the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Program, and the Golden Ark Order, bestowed by Prince Bernard of The Netherlands. She currently lives in Quito, Ecuador.

Prof. Don J. Melnick is professor of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University, as well as executive director and founder of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC). CERC is a consortium for biodiversity conservation education, training, and research that includes Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and Wildlife Preservation Trust International. Prof. Melnick was one of Columbia's youngest tenured professors, as well as the Department of Anthropology's youngest chairman in the University's history. His research focuses on conservation biology, population genetics, molecular systematics, organismal evolution, and primate behavioral ecology. He has published over 85 articles, book chapters, and abstracts, and is actively engaged in research projects in Brazil, Kenya, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Prof. Melnick received Columbia's Hettleman Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service, was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and is a regular lecturer at alumni seminars around the country. He received his Ph.D. in physical anthropology from Yale University.

Task Force Members

• Alicia Barcena
  Deputy Executive Secretary
  UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
   
• David Brackett
  Director General
  Canadian Wildlife Service
   
• Damayanti Buchori
  Head, Center of Integrated Pest Management
  Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
   
• Malin Falkenmark
  Chair, Scientific Program Committee
  Stockholm International Water Institute
   
• Geoffrey Heal
  Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility
  Columbia Business School
   
• Claudia Martínez Zuleta
  Environmental Consultant, Former Vice Minister of the Environment
  Colombia
   
• Charles McNeill
  Environment Programme Team Manager and
  Biodiversity Conservation & Poverty Reduction Advisor,
  Environmentally Sustainable Development Group
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
   
• Rodrigo Medellín
  Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
  Columbia University
   
• Patrick Milimo
  Conservation Programme Director
  World Wildlife Fund, Eastern Africa Regional Programme Office, Kenya
   
• Paulo Moutinho
  Coordinator
  Amazon Institute of Environmental Research, Brazil
   
• Nyawira Muthiga
  Regional Biodiversity Coordinator
  Kenya Wildlife Service
   
• Shahid Naeem
  Associate Professor
  Department of Zoology, University of Washington
   
• Abdoulaye Ndiaye
  Africa Program Officer, Conservation and Sustainable Development
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
   
• Jonathan Patz
  Assistant Professor and Director, Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change
  Bloomberg School of Public Health
  John Hopkins University
   
• Ravi Prabhu
  Acting Director, Program on "Forests and Governance"
  Center for International Forestry Research
  Regional Office for Eastern & Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
   
• Walter Reid
  Director
  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, ICLARM, Malaysia
   
• Peter Schei
  International Negotiations Director
  Directorate for Nature Management, Norway
   
• Chikako Takase
  Division for Sustainable Development
  United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
   
• Robert Watson
  Chief Scientist and Director
  Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development
  World Bank
   
• Douglas Williamson
  Forestry Officer, Forestry Department
  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
   
• Kaveh Zahedi
  Acting Coordinator, Division of Early Warning and Assessment
  Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
  United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)